'Short-term memory illusions' can warp human recollections just seconds after events, study suggests
Human beings can generate false memories of events mere seconds after they have occurred, a new study has found.
"It seems that short-term memory is not always an accurate representation of what was just perceived," the researchers wrote in the study."Instead, memory is shaped by what we expected to see, right from the formation of the first memory trace."To test the accuracy of short-term memories, the researchers enlisted 534 volunteers to take part in a series of four experiments, each designed around memorizing a sequence of letters of the Latin alphabet.
Sometimes, participants were shown a second, irrelevant batch of letters before their memory was tested. After giving the answer, they were then asked to score their confidence, from very low to very high, that they had guessed correctly. —How does the brain store memories?When the participants were asked to recall what they saw just a half second later, they were wrong just under 20% of the time, and this error rate shot up to 30% when asked three seconds later.
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